Last Updated on 3 January 2024

July events from the history of space flight

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12004 – Cassini spacecraft sends back photographs of Saturn’s rings
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32005 – NASA spacecraft collids with a comet half the size of Manhattan, creating an explosion designed to help scientists study the building blocks of life on earth
41997 – Mars Pathfinder arrives on Mars and later begins transmitting images
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82011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis becomes the last American space shuttle to be launched into space, bringing much-needed supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
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141965 – Mariner 4 transmits the first pictures of Mars
2015 – New Horizons is first spacecraft to fly by Pluto
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162011 – NASA’s Dawn spacecraft becomes the first manmade craft to orbit an asteroid
171975 – American Apollo 18 and Soviet Soyuz 19 dock in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
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201969 – Apollo 11 lands on moon, Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men on the moon
1976 – Viking 1 sends first pictures from surface of Mars
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231999 – Eileen Collins becomes the first female Shuttle Commander
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261963 – Syncom 2 becomes first satellite to operate in geostationary orbit
2005 – Space Shuttle Discovery launched with seven astronauts aboard (America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster)
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301971 – Lunar Roving Vehicle “moon rover” driven on the moon for the first time
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